Jaysen Carr, 12, died a week after a trip to a North Carolina lake where a water-based amoeba entered his brain through his nose
Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July holiday swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through his nose.
His parents had no idea the brain-eating amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, even existed in Lake Murray, just 24km (15 miles) west of Columbia.
They found out when a doctor told them the diagnosis after what seemed like a fairly regular headache and nausea took a serious turn.
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